Relational Diagnosis: A Dynamic and Transtheoretical Assessment focused on the Person through Relationship

Abstract

Starting from the general meaning of the concept of Diagnosis, this work focuses on Psychodiagnosis and, from there, delves into the form and substance of a psychodiagnosis in the field of Integrative Relational Psychotherapy, as a transtheoretical and transdiagnostic model. Or what is the same, relational diagnosis, as a global vision of the person, from the physiological, emotional, cognitive, relational, behavioral and spiritual dimensions. In the development of this article, the history of rejection of the classic diagnostic concept is reviewed, from different psychotherapeutic schools, among them Humanistic Psychotherapies. It reflects on the effects of the diagnosis on clients. And it describes, by way of example, a particular way of carrying out, of putting into practice, the process of Relational Diagnosis.